Safety locking device for pushcarts



Jan. 20. 1925. 1,523,849

- w. ZAREKO SAFETY LOCKING DEVICELFOR PUSHGARTS Fil'ed May 5, 1924 M r33 Q w MMQ @a,

v ATTQRNEY Patented Jan. 20, 1925...

UNITED STATES.

WALTER ZAREKO, OF NEW YORK, 1v. Y.

SAFETY LOCKING FOR- PUSHCARTS.

Application filed May 5,

T all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVaL'rnn Zann ro, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invent-ed certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Locking Devices for Pushcarts, of which the tollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to safety locking devices for push wagons and more particularly, though not exclusively, for push wagons having a boxlike body portion provided with a hinged cover for protecting the goods carried in said body-portion, and the object of the invention, in the preferred embodiment thereof, is to safeguard the wagon and also the goods carried by it against theft during the absence of the attendant from the wagon, as when, for il-.

lustrat-ioi'i, the attendant is making a delivery of goods to or collecting return goods from a residence or other place.

In carrying out my invention I secure a simple, durable and e'llicient locking device to one side of the box portion or body of the wagon, this device when in operative position serving as means for locking the wagon wheel against rotation and also, with the use of apadlock, locking the cover in closed position on said body.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a push wagon of the character employed, among other purposes, for delivering laundered goods and collecting goods for a laundry, said wagon being indicated as having the locking devices of my invention applied to one side thereof, said devices being shown by solid lines in operative position;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section through the same taken on the dotted line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar section, with the safety devices of my invention shown as having been unlocked and moved to inoperative position, and

Fig. 4- is a horizontal section through the same taken on the dotted line 4ll of Fig. 1.

In the drawings designates the boxlike body of the wagon, 11 the lid or cover therefor, and 12 one of the wheels, there 1924. Serial No. 710,981.

being one wheel at each side of the body 10. The wagon itself is of ordinary well-known type and is used for various purposes and especially by launderies for delivering laundered goods and collecting goods to be carried to the laundry. Considerable di'lliculty has been experienced in safe-guarding these box-wagons, and the wagon itself is sometimes stolen when the attendant is absent delivering or collecting goods, and frequently in the absence of the attendant the cover 11 will be opened and goods abstracted from the wagon. To prevent occurrences of this kind is the object of my invention, and in carrying out the same, I apply to one side of the wagon a vertical bar 13 having at its upper end a hinged hasp 14: and. at its lower.end being pivotally hinged to a locking plate 15 which mav lie horizontally, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 41:, or hang vertically, as shown in Fig. 3. The plate 15 at its inner end is hinged to a plate 16 which is fastened by screws 17 or the like to the side of the body of the wagon about on a line with the upper edge of the wheel 12. The plate 15 has secured to it two outwardly projecting lugs 18 between which the lower end of the bar 13 is hinged, said bar being formed at its lower end with a sleeve 19 which tits between the lugs 18 and receiving a pin 20 which extends through said lugs and said sleeve 19 and serves asa pintle for hinging the bar 13 to the plate 15. The plate 15 may be of any suitable shape, and in the present instance I have tapered the plate at its opposite edges to ward its outer end, so that said plate may conveniently pass between the adjacent. spokes 21 of the wheel 12, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4;. The hasp 14 contains a slot 22 to pass over a staple 23 secured to the side of the cover 11, and said hasp at its lower end is secured by a hinge 24 to the upper end of the bar 1?). The bar 18 extends through a yoke or loop 25 secured to the side of the body of the wagon and is thereby held in proper relation to said body and in vertical position.

In Fig. 3 I illustrate the parts of my safety device in inope ative position, the hasp 14 having been turned down from the staple 23 and the bar 13 having been allowed to lower and permit the plate 15 to turn downwardly against the side of the body of the wagon. When the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3 my safety device is in- Cir operative. WVhen the wagon is in use and the attendant desires to secure the same against theft during his absence while either delivering goods or collecting goods, he will take hold of the hasp 14 and draw the bar 13 upwardly until the plate 15 passes between the spokes 21 of the wheel 12, and he will move the hasp 14 over the staple 23 and secure the same in that posit-ion by means of apadlock 26, the parts then being in the position shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4'. hen the safety devices are in their operative position, the padlock 26 will prevent the cover 11 from being opened and the plate 15 will prevent the rotation of the wheel 12, and under these circumstances theft of goods from the wagon and the theft of the wagon itself are prevented. hen the attendant again reaches the wagon he may. free the padlock 26 and hasp 1 1 from the staple 23 and allow the bar 15 to settle downwardly to the position shown in Fig. 3, thereby causing the plate 15 to leave the wheel 12 and lie against the side of the body of the wagon. hen the attendant again has to leave the wagon for any purpose he will restore the safety devices to their operative position shown in Fig. 1, and thereby prevent loss of goods from the wagon as well as the loss of the wagon itself.

The mechanism embodying my invention is durable, simple, and sufliciently inexpensive to enable laundries to equip their wagons with the same, and to meet this condition was one of the purposes of my invention. The several parts of my safety device are of wrought metal, and hence the device is durable and capable of resisting severe strains.

I preferably form the lugs 18 out of the metal of the plate 15, said lugs being slit from said plate and bent upwardly to the position shown to'receive between them the lower end of the bar 13. The lugs 18 are set outwardly from the back edge of the )late 15 so as to facilitate the operation o the bar 13 in turning the plate 15 upwardly to operative position and permitting said plate to turn downwardly when the hasp let has been freed from the staple 13.

What I claim as my invention and desire to 'seeure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. Safety locking devices for a pushwagon having a box-body and wheels, said devices comprising a wheel locking-member hinged to said bodyat one side thereof and adapted to hang downwardly clear of said wheel and to be turned horizontally to extend between the spokes of the wheel, a vertically movable bar hinged at its lower end to said locking member and extending along the side of said body, said bar being adapted when drawn upwardly to turn said member to its horizontal position and when released to descend, to permit said member to turn downwardly, and means for locking said bar in its upper position when it is desired to lock the wheel against rotation.

2. Safety locking devices as claimed in claim 1, in which said locking member is a plate having lugs extending therefrom ontwardly from the back edge of the plat: and receiving the lower end of said bar and in which pin passes through said lugs and said end of the bar and therewith serves as the means for hinging the bar to the plate.

3. Safety locking devices as claimed in claim 1, in which the wagon has a fixed loop through which said bar freely passes and also a fixed staple, and in which the bar has a slot to, when the bar is in its upper position, be passed upon said staple, a padlock being provided to engage the staple and lock the bar in its upper position.

at. Safety locking devices for locking the cover and wheel of a push-wagon having a box-body, cover therefor and wheels, said devices comprising a wheel locking-member hinged to said body at one side thereof, and adapted to hang downwardly clear of said wheel and to be turned horiztmtally to ex tend between the spokes of the wheel, a vertically movable bar hinged at its lower end to said locking member and extending along the side of said body, said bar bein adapted when drawn upwardly to turn sait member to its horizontal position and when released to descend, to permit said member to turn downwardly, and means for locking said bar when in its upper position to said cover, thereby securing the cover in closed position and the wheel against rotation.

5. Safety locking devices as claimed in claim 1, in which the means for locking the bar to the cover comprises a slot in the bar. a staple 0n the cover to receir e said slot and a padlock to engage the staple.

6. Safety locking devices as claimed in claim 4:, in which the bar carries on its upper end a hinged hasp containing a slot, and in which the means for locking the bar to the cover comprises a staple secured to the cover and adapted to receive said slot and a padlock to engage said staple.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 3rd day of May, A. D. 1924.

VALTER 7 AREKO. 

